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flit

flit is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 5 senses. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.

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  1. 1.To flutter; to rove on the wing. Dryden.
  2. 2.To pass rapidly, as a light substance, from one place to another; to remove; to migrate. It became a received opinion, that the souls of men, departing this life, did flit out of one body into some other. Hooker.
  3. 3.To remove from one place or habitation to another. [Scot. & Prov. Eng.] Wright. Jamieson.
  4. 4.To be unstable; to be easily or often moved. And the free soul to flitting air resigned. Dryden.
  5. 5.Nimble; quick; swift. [Obs.] See Fleet.

Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).

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